HR Advice

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Emergency Leave An employee is allowed time off to deal with an emergency involving a dependant. A dependant could be a spouse, partner, child, grandchild, parent, or someone who depends on them for care. The employee is allowed a reasonable amount of time off to deal with the emergency, but thereā [...]

Parental leave can be used to enable parents to spend more time with their young families. The right to take parental leave is independent of the right to take maternity, paternity or adoption leave. It is available to birth and adoptive parents or to anyone who has or expects to have parental respo [...]

Yesterday we were asked “What is the difference between an HR Consultant and an Employment Lawyer?” That got us to thinking. Cost is the obvious difference. An Employment Lawyer is possibly more expensive than an HR Consultant. We decided that the differences were probably more detailed [...]

Outsourced HR is when an employer pays a monthly fee to an external HR Consultancy Services company for professional HR advice and support. One third of small/medium sized companies now use outsourced HR support. Why should you consider using outsourced HR? If you already have some HR support in you [...]

How to be a better manager is not as trendy a question as it once was. How to be a better leader is a much more trendy question. Why is that do you think? Surely an organisation can only have so many leaders before they start falling over one another and confusing the direction? Effective managers a [...]